High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1982 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1982 and lasted until November 30, 1982, and was a below average season. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. Only six storms formed during this hurricane season: five named storms (this is the record for the smallest number of named cyclones in the Atlantic basin since naming began in 1950) and an unnamed subtropical storm (no subtropical storms were named between 1974 and 2001). The season started early with Hurricane Alberto forming on the first day of the season. Alberto threatened the Southwestern Florida coast as a tropical storm, causing twenty-three fatalities in Cuba. The next storm, a subtropical storm, formed in June and affected the same area as Alberto, causing $10 million dollars in damage.